The Weekly Planet - 612 Scream 7 & Paramount Wins Warner Bros

Episode Date: March 1, 2026

In a disappointing turn of events Paramount, a company purchased by ghouls, has now squashed the Netflix deal to buy Warner Brothers. We get into all that this could mean for both companies and the industry in general. Plus we review Scre7m, talk the passing of sci-fi legend Rob Grant, two very different GI Joe movies in development, the first look at Amazon’s God of War live action series, a trailer for Mortal Kombat II and a reboot for SPUMM (the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Movies). Thanks for listening!New audio AND video versions of Booque Clubbe out now! James & Maso review 'The Star Wars' comic run on https://bigsandwich.co/Watch Nick Mason on the Zach & Mish Podcast right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jgYQhAkdTkPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift up to a few minutes due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start11:59 RIP Rob Grant18:17 Paramount Beats Netflix for Warner Bros28:59 Max Landis GI Joe Reboot33:13 God of Wars Series First Look36:57 Mortal Kombat 2 Trailer37:15 Venom Animated Movie Announced39:44 SPUMM Forever!45:16 Scream 7 Movie Review56:34 Scream 7 Spoiler Segment 01:08:15 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:16:04 Letters, It's Time For LettersSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back everybody. Thanks. To another episode of... I thought you're going to say thanks again. I was going to go... Oh, I'll do that. The Weekly Planet. Where we talk movies and comics and TV shows.

My name is James, also known as... Nick Mason? Yep, with me as always as Nick Mason. That's right. It's great to be here. Wow, Mason, what an era. What an era, what an intro. What a time to be alive.

We're in unison. We're in sync. That's right. We finish each others. Intros. Entruses. podcast introductions. Sentences about sandwiches.

We were talking about sandwiches just by prior to the show. You told me a great Ringo Starr story. I saw an interview with Ringo Starr story. I saw an interview with Ringo Starr this week. And they said, Ringo Starr, they said, Ringo, what's your favorite type of sandwich? He said, oh, a cheese sandwich. And they said, just cheese. I don't know why that's so funny.

I think it's because you said he could have anything. Yeah, he could have anything. But maybe he's had everything. He's definitely had everything. Maybe he's had his lobster and caviar sandwich. which is maybe he's had, maybe he used to have three meals a day and he's like, no, just like cheese.

Just cheese. But you did say it was two types of cheese. A soft cheese and a hard cheese. Simultaneously. Okay, all right, man. Yeah, like, yeah. Like, but I think... I'm imagining just white bread, no condiments straight out.

Yeah, I think it was white bread, but I think it was like a soft goat's cheese and a hard goat's cheese or something? Two goats cheeses? That's apparently it. What's a plural of cheese? It's cheese eye? Very cheese eye.

Yeah, agreed. Wow. I'm glad he's still alive. Me too. And he's got simple taste. That's right, simple taste for a simple guy That's beautiful actually Mason, it's a big wake, isn't it?

You can take a bite in between a drum and each drum I'm not very good at this I could use in a sandwich while I do it because I'm not very good He could keep them in the stick drum I'm imagining him hitting the drum

and he goes to put the sandwich in his mouth and he misses his mouth He doesn't throw at his head He stops drumming He just leaves the drumstick On the top of the kit And with his other hand He uses that moment to take

attempt to take a bite of the sandwich and he misses his mouth. And everybody, the remaining three Beatles just stop and they turn to look at him. He's on stage. He certainly is. Yeah. And we're on stage right now, the stage of podcasting. We are on the stage of podcasting because this week we're talking about Scream 7. It's the latest in the Scream franchise. We see it, so you don't have to.

That's right. You don't have to. You really don't have to. You really don't have to. We don't have a ton of options this week in Australia. No. Good luck, have fun, don't die. Isn't out yet.

Maybe ever. Maybe it might not be out. Hoppers is pushed to March 25th. We can't even do it next week. Wow, the... Beavatar. Oh, okay. Beavita.

Yeah, Bivatar. Not the ongoing story of the hopper family from Stranger Things. No, absolutely not. Yeah. That's a shame. What else will be doing? But we're like, we'll knock off screen. Yeah, why not?

May as well. Yeah. I mean, you know, a perfect way because it is a paramount production. Is it? I forgot. Cast entirely with traitors. Oh, yeah, of course. Traitors to humanity.

I think it's okay. And just a bunch of, what do you call them? Scabs. It's okay to take $7 million. I'm okay. Yeah, I guess. Sure. That's all I'm saying.

We're also going to pass, talk the passing of Rob Grant. That's right. People, well, we'll talk about who he is and his contribution to sci-fi. If you don't know, stay tuned. Stay tuned, that's right. We're going to talk about how Paramount has stepped in to the Warner Brothers Netflix. Producers of Scream 7. That's right.

The Warner Bros. The movie we talk about this week. That's right. The Warner Bros. Netflix. And it's, it's, they've taken it over. So Warner Brothers looks to be, at this point, going to Paramount, which is horrible fucking news. And look, we're going to get into it, but apparently Netflix gets a real big kickback. They do, absolutely.

They, which has already been paid for apparently. We're going to talk about two different G.I. Joe movies in development at Paramount. Wow, like the soft cheese and the hard cheese. Yeah. I would say one good cheese and one rotten ass cheese. That's interesting. A rat's cheese? Yeah, there's done a bunch of like sexual assaults.

Huh. And his dad killed by kids in a helicopter. It did happen. Yeah, yeah. We're going to talk about the first image of from God of war. Do you see this, Mason? I did see it. We're going to sort of talk about the Mortal Kombat 2 trailer that's a new one,

but probably not. We can probably skip that. It's the moral combat, right? It's the same again. And that's fine. I'm going to enjoy it, I think, probably. Bap, bampa, bapa, etc. You know, we all believed in ourselves, so we got laser eyes and stuff.

That's right. He can't agree. You shouldn't have a laser eye because he learned to believe in himself. He should have a laser eye because somebody ripped it out and he thought it'd be funny to get a laser eye put in. That is funny. Right? Yeah.

Not a laser point on that would be funny. But I also love the idea that we haven't seen Johnny Cage's, because he doesn't believe in himself yet. Oh, yeah. We haven't seen him do. And we know what it is. The splits in the punch. The splits in the punch, but also like throwing the green ball or whatever.

Throwing the green ball and doing the shadow kick. Yeah. Like this, they're really saving that up. It's like we're, we're. Shadow kick. Yeah. Is that what he says? Shadow.

Hollywood shadow kick. He does say Hollywood shadow kick. Yes, that's right. And sometimes Vancouver shadow kick when he's filming somewhere else. Makes sense. Yeah, yeah. The volume shadow kick. That's mostly it.

We didn't get Greg Fraser shadow kick. Oh, no. Yeah, it doesn't look like a good shadow kick. No, very bad. We're talking about a venom animated movie and also a reboot. Vanamated movie. That's right, at a reboot of Spum. Wow.

There's time codes below because Rob Collings who edits this, he puts them in. And speaking of, we just got a message from me. It says, hi, this is Collings. He doesn't need to say that. I don't know who it is. I can see your username Collings. That's interesting. Through Slack.

He said, if you're going to cover the X-Filers reboot news, we're not. Could you please refrain from any major spoilers of the original? I've had a side project watching it for the first time over the last year, and I'm around midway through season six. Thank you and God bless little alien emoji. Well, it's going to be hard to not do it now that you told us not to. That's right. Could you ask Rob Colling, what his favourite episode is thus far?

Oh, yeah, Rob Collings, what's your favourite episode? No, I'm asking him now. Okay, fine. No, I'm asking him here, fine. We're going to do it live. Okay. We're doing it live. We're doing it live.

What is your favorite episode? Is it the Tick episode? The Fluke Man? Could be fluke man. Your favorite episode. I mean, there is a correct answer, but it's not that. I'm going to be like, is it this one? And I'm just going to say the finale and what happens with it.

Is it one where Mulder gets shot into space? Is it the one where Mulder and Scully do the fusion dance and turn into one's super FBI agent at the end? And they kick the aliens back into space? Yes, it is. That's that one. That's correct. Oh, complete change of topic.

Sure. I was going to say speaking of doing the fusion dance. Anyway, speaking about episodes of The X-Files, it never happened. Go on. This is not related at all. But I was on this week's episode of Mission's Axe for Rengue Rangirama. Oh, speaking of TV shows from the 90s. There it is.

There you go, great. Found a perfect link. You've done it again somehow for the first time. I'm holding for applause. Great, that's good. Maybe there is some applause at a distance that I can't hear that maybe only dogs can be. It's rumbling through. Oh, okay.

It'll get to us eventually. It'll get to us eventually. You're on this stupid show. Yes, I absolutely was. So I was on the podcast, Mishinzaks, Ferengi Rangirama. It is a stupid show, but in a good way. That's exactly right. It used to be called Mishinzak's Legu Zamorama,

where they went through the filmography of John Leguizamo, character actor. This is Mish and Zach from Auntie Donna. But now they're doing every episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine except but just the episodes that feature the Grand Nagas of the Ferengi. So we watched an episode called Body Parties. from season four where Quark, he thinks he's dying, so he sells off all his body parts because he, to cover all his debts,

so he can die without any debts, because that's the pharingy way. But then it turns out he actually isn't dying, so he's got to worm his way out of it. It's a fun episode, it's a fun, it's a fun one. Great. It's got a character actor Jeffrey Coombs in it. Oh, like Jeffrey Coombs in it. It's good, good fun.

We had a good fun time, is what I'll tell you. You always do over there. That's exactly right. But I would say, going into this, Zach has seen all of Deep Space Nine quite recently. I watched it when it was on TV in the 90s and Mish has never seen it before. She's only seen the odd episodes

with the Grand Nagas of the Ferengi. So if you were on board with three people of completely different levels of familiarity with Star Trek Deep Space Nine, discussing Star Trek Deep Space Nine, you will have a good time. If you're not on board with that, I don't know what to tell you.

Get on board quick. It's a good time. It's a good time. So that's on your podcast app of choice, but it's also on YouTube. So if you watch that. You can watch it. You can watch it.

Let's pump those numbers up. Let's get them up there. I don't want to be embarrassed in front of my friends, Mission Zach Ferengi Ramamara rum and Ferengue Rangy Rangu. Do you think they got you on to embarrass you? I think they got me on to embarrass me, honestly. Let's crank those numbers up. Let's crank those numbers.

Yeah. Collings has said, dude, that's so much pressure. There's a rip-up of the thing in season one that's great. Recently there was a Brian Crensen episode, which was legit. I even love the ridiculous ones, like the face on Mars actually being a spooky ghost. Spoiler alert. Yeah, come on. The alien conspiracy main arc is rough at times,

but I think everyone agrees with that. maybe. I'm also behind on this, but having a good time. Did you watch much of it? Also, are you recording right now? We are, Conlings. We're recording this right now. That's correct. Did I watch much of it? Yeah, I probably, I watched it through to the end. Yeah. And then I watched the reboot some of it. And I've seen the movie. So I guess I've seen most of it. I had two X-Files posters up on my bedroom wall when this came out. And I, I was, you know, as big of a super fan as you could probably be of the X-Files at the time. But if you were to say, what was the overarching alien plot.

I don't know. Yeah, don't worry about it. I would say don't worry about it. Something about goo and bees. Yeah, goo and bees. Hashtag goo and bees. But you do find out what the truth is. They tell you in the last episode.

That's right. That's the tooth. Yeah. Let's do this, Mason. X-Files. Did you watch Harsh Realm? No. Was that like Millennium?

No. Well, Chris Carter, who created the X-Files. You probably start the regular show. Is this not the regular show? I guess it is. Yeah. But if you put it in the segments, people don't notice. No, that's true.

He did the X-Files, obviously, and that was a big hit. And during that, he created Millennium, which was not initially set during the X-Files, but then it ended and they spun off the... There was an X-Files episode that finished up the Millennium Story. And he also did a show called Harsh Realm, allegedly... It's got Terry O'Quinn from Lost. It set in a bunch of people get trapped in a virtual world or something like that.

It's a virtual reality training program or something. I think it was pulled from TV up. It's based on the comic book arc. Yeah. Yeah. I've never seen, again, like as a mega fan of the X-Files, I've not seen a single frame of this.

I'm still not 100% confident it was real. No, it's real. It's real and people don't like it. Yeah, nobody's. Harsh realm. I think that's how it goes. That's exactly right. Apparently, what I do know, one fact I know about it is

it's called harsh realm because there was a fake list of grunge terms. There was an article about it. That's why. I was just reading that on Wikipedia. Some young person was asked about like, what are the terms in the grunge scene? And she was like, oh, what about a harsh realm man? This is such a harsh realm man.

And all the main ceremony got tricked by the grunge times. Anyway, is there anybody out there seen Harsh Realm? Should I watch it in its 4-3, just grainy, awfulness? Orful virtual reality nonsense. Yeah, maybe. When you die in the harsh realm, do you die in real life? Probably. Yeah.

Because it's not called Fun Realm. No, maybe you can just take the giant virtual reality helmet. I think it's one of those things where they'll zap you into it. Yeah, they'll zap you in it. Yeah. Favorite episodes, that one when they go, the Fluke Man, that's a spooky one. Yep. Favorite episodes, the one.

They call it the spooky fluk. The one with the glowing green bugs that cocoon you. Oh, yeah. That's a good. Favorite episode, the one where Scully doesn't see a werewolf or whatever, but Molda does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or it doesn't have to be a werewolf, it can be whatever. No, yeah.

Anyways, Mason, let's start here. The answer is Clyde Brockman's final ripout. That is an excellent episode. Yeah, you're right. You're probably right. Rob Grant has passed away at age 70. For those in the know, he worked on one of the creators of Red Dwarf, including the books. But also he worked on season one to six.

So all the good Red Dwarf he worked on. And then he left Dan. Grant Naylor, no, sorry, Doug Nailer continued it after him. He said the main reason for leaving was that he wished to have more on his tombstone than Red Dwarf on it. I'm sure his tombstone isn't just going to say it's not going to just be blank and it just says red, although that would be funny. Who has the tombstone that just says,

I told you I was ill? That was probably Hemingway or whatever. No, his was. Truman Capote? No, it was an actual comedian. Oh, it doesn't matter. Clyde Bruchman? Yes, it was Clive Bruchman, a guy we've made up.

Yes. So their partnership split up and then they wrote separate red dwarf books that's correct, yes. based in Last Human and Backwards Yeah In different realities

Different continuity Yeah Yeah yeah And look As much as we You know We're huge fans of Reddolls We faff around about this

And make fun of like God We'll mention Red Dwarf And go That's our Red Dwarf episode We I was again As big of a super fan As you could read

Of Red Dwar back then I had all the books I had the novels I had the Space Corps Survival Manual Didn't have that I had another thing I had a bunch of stuff

That probably wasn't real I'm sure I had I think Craig Charles wrote a book and I got that. I did read the Craig Charles book. I also read that. And it's like Lister's Guide to Life or something. Yeah. There was one about the making of season six and I had all the gunman of the apocalypse. That's the one that won an Emmy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, great, great series. Incredible. So he also, he left the series, but then in 2021, he made a red dwarf short called Into the Gloop, which was performed, performed via Zoom as part of the official Red Dwarf fan club.

I haven't listened to that, but I probably should. I was just looking in like Reddit about people's general thoughts on this. And people regard him as, like, he, uh, Doug Naila did a lot of the heart and things like that. And he was like the hard sci-fi elements and like the bleakness. Oh, I see. Right.

And apparently into the gloop is that. Right. And so I need to, uh, re, I need to listen to it, haven't that all. But also he's got a red dwarf book out this year. It's a prequel called Titan,

which he co-wrote, which is coming out in July, which I think I'm going to get. Because I, I can't remember one of the, one of the, because they, there were,

there were two red dwarf books. novels that they wrote together. Infinity welcomes careful drivers and better than life. And then one of the subsequent ones, I think the cover photo is just a pile of skulls or something. So that was probably him. The books get pretty grim at times. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, so the Titan would be because Lister goes in a pub crawl on Earth and then he wakes up on one of the moons of Titan.

And then he has to survive as like a space cab driver before he decides to join Red we're expecting it to get him back to Earth immediately. But it takes three million years away from up. Exactly. Well, there you go. Okay. I would say what's like, if you've never seen an episode, just watch like gunman of the apocalypse.

That's a good one. It's probably the best one. Yeah. But also I think you can just watch that, right? Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And it's only like 20 to him. It's one,

an Emmy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because, you know, it's start, red dwarf is interesting because it started out as just kind of like, it was just the odd couple, but in space. Like the idea that was in space was not the biggest element of that. It was just like, okay, two guys that don't get along and they're the only people left.

You know, Lister and Rimmer, how do they, you know, one's neat and one's messy or whatever. And then sort of the sci-fi and the plots sort of increased and it became more of a space adventure kind of thing. Absolutely, yeah. And then sort of six, season six to me is where the adventure elements and the sitcom elements. They really, and the budget's like there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a perfect mesh. Yeah.

And then it's, there are some good stuff after that, but I didn't remember. mind the movie the last movie the the what's it called camera was called the promised land yeah it's not bad and there's supposed to be something else i think they should do i've said this before to you i think but i think they should do an episode because at this point they've you know they've they've you know gotten time machines and warp drives and they've gone to a bunch of different parallel earths like surely at some point they'd get to an earth that's good enough yeah i think they should do an episode where like or a finale where they just go you know what we're could have gone back to Earth, but we just like

being friends who fly through space. I don't know, because I think that that element of like, it's never going to happen is what keeps it going. Because like, it's depressing. Okay. You don't think they've earned a happy ending at this place. No, I think it's okay.

Let humanity die. Don't worry about it. Okay, right. Well, I don't expect that, really. I just, you know. Yeah, I don't know. They'll get to it. You know, because like, you know, know, Ace Rimmer has the, you know, he has that spaceship that lets him go through every parallel universe. Surely he could get them all back to a nice enough Earth one at the time. Well, all the Acerrimmers are dead.

Yeah, okay. If you know anything about Red Dwar basically. But I mean, if there's been that many A's RIMS going through all space and time and dimensions, they could meet one. I don't know. I think he's dead now, but it wasn't dead now. I think they gave it to the last one. I think Rima being, because he was like the last choice.

But I'm saying it's like meeting Doctor Who. Yeah, okay. Even if the current doctor who, even if doctor who is currently in a shooty gartwa, yeah, you could meet the David Piper. Exactly, you could meet the David Tennant one. Yeah. Because he's just going back and forth for a time. Zippin' Zappen.

He's up and zapping. He's up and happening. Yeah, right. Yeah. Cool. Anyway, rest of peace, Rob Grant. Yeah. I'm looking forward to that.

Great work. Really good stuff. Anyway, again, like. If you like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you'd probably like it. Look, he probably said that as a joke. But I mean, there's nothing wrong with being known for a thing that everybody love. Like, there's, I know there's podcasts about Red Dwarf and just people reminiscing and like everybody loved it as kids and you know there's there's just so many

just memorable bits and good shows and also like if you like rick and morty red dwarf probably did there was probably a passing reference to something like that in red dwarf just without the budget there was a despot i think i mentioned this there was a gazpacho soup reference in starfleter oh you did say that yeah so that's a hundred percent of red dwarf reference that's right anyway mason via t hr in uh in one big company buys another big company news and we like But yeah, and we love it, but also with the wabwe're in hell just as well segment of the show. Netflix, Netflix. Oh no.

Who's this company? What are they up to? What funny twist on the Netflix environment of they doing? Netflix, I can't think of it. Carry on. You'll come back to it. Netflix has backed out of its purchase of Warner Brothers. So what basically happened was that Paramount run by two ghouls, David Allison and Larry Ellison.

Probably a bunch more ghouls, but there's two main ghouls. Domain ghouls, yeah. They've been trying to acquire Warner Brothers since Netflix made the deal in like December, I think it happened last year. Yeah. And so what they've basically done, they've outbid Netflix. Netflix had the opportunity to put in a counter offer and they went, no. Interesting. They said the transaction, this is from Ted Sarandos from Netflix and Greg Peters.

Some guy he knows. Ted's mate. This is my neighbor, Ted, Greg, whatever. The transaction we negotiated. I'm Greg. You're Ted now. We're both Ted. The transaction we negotiated would have created a shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory

approval. However, we've always been disciplined and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive. So we are declining to match the bid. The transaction was always a nice to have at the right price, but not a must have at any price. Yeah. So the Warner Brothers basically said that this is a superior deal.

We're looking to up at first. Further, it went from, I think it was $19 a share, which they initially were paying for, now it's up to $31. I got $31. Yeah, you might. Oh, I missed out. I could have done this. Yeah.

I easily got $31. So what's crazy about this as well is that Paramount has also agreed to pay the 2.8 termination fee that Warner Brothers would be... $2.8 billion, sorry, would cry to play Netflix to terminate the existing merger. Nice. Netflix shares actually increased by 10% after this, which makes sense. Dollars and sense. And I also want to point out, this Paramount deal, it's not necessarily a sure thing.

Right. I think it can fall apart. I don't think it's going to fall apart for regulatory reasons. Right. It'll fall apart due to incompetence and bankruptcy or something. It might also fall apart like it might go through and then everything, you know, Warner Brothers will fall apart anyway. I mean, we, this sort of thing, I've seen a lot of hubbub on the internet that I think is only scratching the surface that, you know, the various double dealings and backstabings and incompetence. and incompetence and, like, sneaky ways to avoid paying tax.

Yeah. They do a thing, again, it's a bunch of stuff that I barely understand, but it's the, you know, the idea that sometimes a large corporation will buy another entity, corporate entity, and then saddle it with all its debt, and then it goes out of business completely, and then everybody involved gets fired. Oh, yeah, a lot of people are going to get fired. That always happens. You know, this often happens with, like, retail outlets or, like, you know, fast food places

or something, a large corporation buys them, saddles them down with debt and takes out loans in their name and does all this sort of stuff. And then the place goes out of business and you can't buy anything there. You can't buy your favorite chicken or whatever it is. And everybody gets fired. Yeah. Yeah, Red wrist is, what's going on there? It's a tax right.

It's a tax right up for the Coles Margaret. And it's not very good. It's not good. And it's getting worse. It is getting worse. It's getting worse. Yeah, so I don't know. Maybe it's that.

Maybe it's that. Maybe they're, you know, and again, a lot of people have said, okay, well, it's part of this, the Ellison twins, father and son, but also twins and mutants and ghouls. They are buying this to, you know, advance a pro-Trump, right-wing agenda, etc. And this deal comes with CNN, I think. Comes with CNN, which means they own TikTok, huge stake in TikTok, the US in particular, Warner Brothers, CNN, CBS.

I mean, when you own also, just having TikTok in itself, like a major, like, it's the biggest platform. Absolutely. Like it's, like the amount of it. Should we get on it? We are. Russell Crow's on it. He's showing everybody his watches.

Do you say that? Well, I don't mind that. A lot of people go to send me emails about. Russell Crow showing his watches. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go, Rusco. Absolutely. That's the real TikTok.

It is, isn't it? The TikTok of a watch. So apparently also, Allison is likely to be called before Congress about this. Senator Elizabeth Warren called this an antitrust disaster. And I'm voting for it anyway. Yeah, exactly. What the fuck is she's been doing inside of trading for like 400 fucking years. They all have exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks for giving us the television. Yep off ahead of time, she said. Yeah, that's right. I'm going to vote yes, and I'm going to say it's bad. This is terrible, also, again, a lot of people have said, you know, okay. And Netflix wasn't good news either, just to clarify. I mean, again, we don't know the full extent of the fallout of this.

And, you know, a lot of people have said, okay, does this mean the end for DC, Warner Brothers? Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman. So the entire DC catalog, June, Harry Potter, Evil Dead, Godzilla, Looney Tunes, Lord of the Rings, Mad, Max, the Matrix, oceans, Scooby-Doo, Game of Thrones. the video games, just all the video games that they now own. But here's the thing also, and this I think has been pointed out, they need money. Yes. And if they're just like, we're actually going to, we're going to get rid of all the woke stuff

and we're going to do anti-woke Batman and we're going to do anti-woke Justice League or whatever, you're in trouble. Nobody's going to buy that or buy tickets to that or whatever. No. I think I would guess that unless somebody in that, kind of creative sphere makes a personal enemy of these guys. Yeah. They're just going to be like, well, what was a hit?

Yeah. Like, you know, people have pointed out when Ike Pellmutter was the head of some division of Marvel, he couldn't push through as much as he wanted to. Like, he tried. Yeah, that's true. But like, Kevin Feigey had better ideas and he was making the money. Yeah. So a lot of the time the vote went to Figeykeg.

Oh, that's absolutely what it's going to come down to. I just had to leave eventually. So like, you know, if Ryan Cougal is like, I'm going to do a sinner's prequel or sequel or something. They're not going to go, well, no, I don't see this, you know, because that made a bunch of money and... Yeah, but also they just might. Yeah, I mean, they're terrible.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, apparently also speaking of, they're keeping the creative teams like James Gunn and Peter Safra and Michael DeLuca and Pam Abdi, their co-chairs and CEOs at Warner Brothers, they're going to stay on. I feel like this is going to change, though, down the line. It's like, you know, whenever there's a new boss in anything, yeah, yeah, there's a changing of the guard, think shift,

people get fired, people leave, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here's some things that might happen, though. Fuseball table, certainly. Well, David Zazlev said by Bloomberg. Got it's saffran. They've been staring each other across a desk for ages, you know, finally.

No doubt. So David Zazlev set this up. We'll talk about it. He's been stripping Warner Brothers for parts for years, like canceling stuff, stripping stuff back. Actually, their current film slate is pretty good. So basically his idea is to increase your hold of value. Nice.

And he said once our board... I love that. I got my $31 ready. He said, once our board vote, votes to adopt the Paramount merger agreement, it will create tremendous value for our shareholders. This is all this is. People know that, but it's just about creating value for shareholders. It's not, I mean, nobody thinks this is related to art.

No, absolutely not. Is that worth mentioning? I don't know. Don't worry about it. The one thing is maybe it is better for cinematic releases than what Netflix were going to do. Apparently they're planning on releasing 30 movies a year, which also is it more than what, that's not more than what they've currently been doing between the two of them. Paramount also, when it was bought by them a few years ago,

it hasn't done better or anything interesting since. It's not like Paramount Plus is like a big streaming app. And speaking of, that's going to absorb the content of HBO Max. So Paramount Plus is more compelling for subscribers. So the idea at the moment is to kill HBO Max or rebranded, I guess, and have Paramount Plus be the home of them. That's what? Folks, I don't know, HBO,

like that for literally decades. As long as I've been aware of the concept of television, the idea of HBO is like quality entertainment. Why do you keep trying to remove the HBO part of this? Why are you turning into just Max? That's not anything. Paramount Plus isn't anything. No.

It's the one you go, oh, that's on there. I have that. Yeah, I have that, exactly. I accidentally sign up for that once. I have it because you can add it as a channel on Amazon video. Yeah. Exactly.

Apparently, they're also leveraged. artificial intelligence to produce more TV shows and movies. That's terrific. That's great, good, good. That's great, good. That's the one positive we're getting out of this. Yeah. I mean, it's all going this way.

What cool, what cool AI slop did I see this week? I'll think of it. It's a little segment called Mason got pushed an AI video of something that he hated. Sometimes I send it myself. I just email. Search email. Email it to you. Oh, you know what it is?

It's a video of Determinator Fighters. a predator. Do you see this video? No. Well, you're going to see it. It's really good. Can I retrieve posts at this time? Well, great. That's really good. Yeah.

That's the real Terminator. It's just a video of... Which Terminator? The Arnold Monaster. Like the Arnold Terminator and Predator. Will it come up now? Probably not. But they're just throwing each other through walls.

And it's, you know, through C-dance or whatever the latest one is. And it's like somebody going, I've always dreamed of this, making this and it's like it's like they'll throw each other through a wall but none of the continuity makes sense and like you know wounds will open up on the Terminator and then they've

closed up by the next. Oh so is the T-1000 Terminator? No James it's the T-800. I thought for a second. It's the model 101 that looks like Sergeant Candy that's who it is James. Sorry, I apologize for that. The thing is like whatever happened to be like I always wanted to see that and just you could

imagine it. Yeah that's right. Yeah. Isn't that okay? and it's just not like it's again it's just two action figures because it's not like you look at it and go okay Arnold's using the iconic shotgun from T2 or you know you see through his eyes and it's the Terminator vision

or the Predators using him. He's got the Terminator vision they both got kind of Terminator vision don't they? In some ways they know he's not using the plasma cannon or whatever you know it's just rasseling it's just Jim throwing each other through walls it's just the basically the animation from you know Terminator 2 where the T-800

and the T1,000 are throwing each other or back and forth or whatever. Classic predator move. Classic predator move. Just rassling with a guy. Just rassling, yeah. Fully visible rassum. Fuck me.

Yeah, it was really good. You should track it down. I can't. It's gone forever. It's gone, yeah. Yeah, right. Well, speaking of Paramount, this is by a deadline.

Two different G.I. Joe movies are apparently in development of Paramount. One is from Danny McBride. Interesting. And the other one is from Sex Pest Max Landers. I would imagine the Danny McBride one, like he probably got the call, or he submitted something after Barbie.

After Barbie, exactly, right? Post-Ironic, funny, you know, Team America style, you know, poking fun at everything. Yeah. I would watch that. That sounds fun. And people might be like, well, that's not true to the spirit of G.I. Joe. Well, they tried it twice, three times.

Yeah. It's at the end of that thing. Yeah. Oh, four times if you count, Transformers. Oh, that's what you're talking about the original animated one and then the two ones and the two ones after that? And snake guys. And snake eyes.

Oh, it's not true. That's coming up next week, isn't it? I think it is, yeah. I forgot about Snake Guys. I don't know why, because we just recorded it. Right? Right before this. Well, we're recorded again.

Make sure it's, you know, tight. You might be like, why would they pick Max Landis? Well, they also work with... A singular MacLandus. Yeah, Mac. They also work with, well, Chris Tucker for one, and he's been on certain planes, hasn't he? Oh, was he on a plane?

Yeah, he was. And also, Brett Ratner. Oh, he's been on a bunch of planes. He's been on a bunch of planes. On Rush Hour 4, so that's apparently... Oh, right, okay. works for a while. Okay.

And so that's the, that's the, these people don't care. No. They, they, I mean, how,

how do you, you're just walking around and like, and you, you don't, you're not like, oh, this is like a bad. They're all bad.

So what is it? I'm sorry, I'm fucking, my brain is misfiring. And about G. Joe, no less. No,

I just mean the idea that you just like, you know actively, yeah, that they're bad people. Yeah, you know that. Yeah, and you're just like,

Whatever. You had a, you know, you had a drink with him on time. Also, like, rush hour four, fuck off. Like, who even wants to see that? What are we doing? Yeah. What the fuck's happening? I don't know, man.

Fuck me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I'd prefer it if they did the Danny McBride line. I mean, I think also Danny McBride could do one that is serious. He definitely could. Like Ed, but he's also...

I think he's got a good vibe for like a fun Gio Joe thing. Does he write? Because he's in the righteous gemstein. Does he write on that as well? I don't know. I think he does. I don't know. Well, he's great.

But I think he does. East Mountain Down's good. That Vice Principal show is apparently very good, which I've never saying. Yeah. Yeah, these are all good stuff. And Eastbound and Down. I feel like Eastbound and Down, like, one of the best intros for like a truly insane character. Absolutely.

The very concept of him. Yeah. What's his name again? Kenny Powers. Kenny Powers. Yeah. No, great. I should give that a rewatch.

Yeah. I don't know. I mean, maybe they're like hedging their bets here of like, do we do the post-ironic, you know, post-Barby thing or do we get a guy who'll just do straight ahead like uh-huh I don't know I mean also I feel like Max Lander's

could like could get into the DC properties like via this Oh yeah no He did he wrote some comics And he wanted he really wants to be in there I remember he did a death of Superman thing I've probably talked about it on here And he wrote

He did American Alien The comic run The Superman one yeah What do you have to do with The Chronicle? Yeah chronicle that's one He wrote Chronicle Did he want to get in there.

Did you say that folding ideas video recently about the Jirehead sequels? No, I haven't. I didn't know he did that. This was a couple of months ago, I think, maybe. Okay, right. But there's Jarrhead circles. I did know the Jail. They completely missed the point of the movie.

Yeah, people who don't know it, the Jake Gyllenhaal movie about the Marine Corps, the U.S. Marine Corps, which is based on a book. And it's essentially... It's just men going insane. Yeah, it's essentially about how the U.S. Marine Corps, according to this author, is a cult that takes young people who need a job and direction and meaning in life and sort of tells them it's noble to die for a cause, that cause being whatever the US government wants them to do.

And then the sequels, because there's a, look, I won't get into the video, the wise in where force, because it's in the video, it's very good. But the sequels are just like, yeah, how good's the Marine Corps? Good point. Sempefine, you know what I mean? And Jake Gyllenhaal's in all of these, you're telling me? He's in one of them, the first one. The second one.

No, he's not, no, no, no, no. Great. Let's talk what Amazon are doing. Oh, okay. There's a first look at God of War, which is based on the 2018 reboot sequel, which is set within the North's mythology. They're currently...

Sad Dad. Dad one. They're currently, they're also remaking the first three. As in like a remaster. Yeah, no, complete remakes, apparently. So they've got this first image. I don't think it's like a picture from the actual... like footage they talk. You think it's like posed,

like a promo photo? It's like a promo, maybe a test thing. What I, my first thought was that the boy looks very young. He does really young. He looks younger than he does

in the games. Yeah. The boy in the games, boy, Treyas, he's supposed to be like 12-ish, I think maybe, but he looks like eight.

He doesn't. Is that because they've cast him young because he'll probably get a little older over the course of the series? Yeah, maybe, yeah. And look, I, you know, it looks a little flat. It's a very clean costume,

do I mean? You know, we talk about that right, right, As a Soka, it's like, that's the first time she's worn these clothes. Yeah. So Kratos, he's a Game of Thrones guy. No.

Or is it a different guy? No, he's, he's in, there are some Game of Thrones guys in it. Yeah. Oh, he's, he's Thor. He's Thor, I think. Right. But they've cast a different Thor. Yeah, Game of Thrones guy is Thor.

Ryan Hurst. So he, and you can see this when you look at it, he can't cut his hair for religious reasons. So you can see. Yeah, so you can see he's got a ball to. cap. Okay. He's Rastafarian. Yes, he's Rastafarian.

Okay. Well. So it's very noticeable that... So he's going to have a big bowl of his head. Yeah, I mean, they can smooth that out. They can definitely do it. But they won't. Also, like, and those games are great.

I agree. But this is also, again, it's a gruff man and a little kid. Like, we've been doing a lot of gruffman little kid stuff in this past 10 years. The Last of Us, for example. Yeah, well, you know, I mean, it's an old trope from, you know, way back when. Like the 90s. the 90s at least. So, you know, that's fine.

But this is, um, Raff Judkins, Judkins is the showrunner. Okay. He's from the Wheel of Time, which I haven't seen. And Mark Ferguson, Hawke Ostby from the expanse are involved in this.

So, you know, that's a, I don't know, I look, I haven't seen Wheel of Time. Yeah, but,

like some of those names. It's interesting. I mean, this, this has attracted some criticism. A lot of criticism. Yeah, but probably a lot.

I mean, I think they should have, because this feels like, you know, it feels like opening scene of the first one where it's like, you know, Kratos is teaching his son out of hunt and, you know, etc.

But I think they should have just done a pose where he looks enormous. Yeah. I think that would have, that would have darken it. Yeah, maybe. And I've seen people be like, oh,

he doesn't look ripped enough or whatever. I don't care about it. That's what I'm saying. I think they, yeah. But I also like, I don't care about that. That's an impossible physique to like maintain.

Yeah. That's not the problem with that. It just looks kind of flat and streaming service. Also, I don't know really who this is. Yeah. on the internet, but I'm aware of him. Doesn't the kid look like Hasbola?

You know that guy? Yeah, I know that guy. I don't know what his deal is. Yeah, the one who Mike Tyson picked up and tickled. Oh, is that one? He thought he was a boy. A little boy. So I heard someone also say he looks like little Nick Frost.

Oh, yeah. And that's fun. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's also like, it's just a still image. Do you remember the first image of Heath Ledger's Joker? It's terrible. Yeah. It's like badly lit.

Well, guess what? We've learned no lessons. Yeah. We're all going backwards. We're definitely going to... We're judging a book by its company. Yeah, totally. Absolutely.

So that's what I wanted to say. That like, it could be fine or it won't. Absolutely. I honestly don't care. That's what? Two years away, probably end of next year, maybe, mid to end of next year. Cool. Cool.

Anyway, Mortal Kombat had a trailer. We talked about it. Yeah, yeah. He didn't throw any of his balls. He didn't say Sonic boom and he threw his ball. James. He says yoga flame. And then he throws his ball.

He says Johnny Cage, Yoga Flame. Yoga Flame. Hollywood's Yoga Flame. That's exactly right. Yeah. This is by a THR, though. Venom animated movies in the works. Okay.

This is by Zach Lipowski and Adam B. Stein, the duo behind last year's Final Destination Bloodlines will direct. People like that one. They do. Tom Hardy will produce. Okay. Must be nice. He could probably voice it.

I don't see why he couldn't. Just a bit of background here. Venom was created. was introduced as a villain in 1998 by Bill. Is it Michelin? I hate you say his name. McAleine? David Michelin?

Bill. I thought it was Bill. It says Bill here. That is incorrect. It might be wrong because it also says, and the artist Todd McFarlane. Then it says, Famously introduced in 98, blah, blah, blah.

He got his first solo comic in 1993. Then the character made his big screen debut in Sam Ramey's amazing Spider-Man 3. Yeah, no, that's AI. This is AI. It's David Michelini was the writer at the time. Yeah. There you go. Yeah.

So, of course, the reason this is happening is because the first Venom movie made $856 million. Venom 2, the big red venom made $506 million. And Venom 3, whatever, made $478 million. Lightning Venom. Lightning Venom lady. So, you know, that's like $1.8 billion. Yeah. So it makes sense.

Rumor is that it's going to take... Also, Chewittalasia Falls there. Oh, he was, wasn't he? Rumor is that this might take on an R rating. Also, this is years away. Animation takes forever and at the moment no one is writing it. And maybe, I'm going to throw this out there. What if you put Spider-Man in it?

Oh, nice. What if you put Spider-Man in a Venom project? So I'm going to think about... What they have in common, though. I don't know, the same power set? A lot of that. They're linked. Sounds boring.

It is boring, isn't it? What if he fought a different... I mean, oh, wouldn't it be good if he fought someone the same in a power set? Yeah, lightning venom lady And also green venom Did they fight each other? No, they teamed

Well, they didn't really do anything They interacted a little bit And then lady lightning venom Got lady lightning venom Got lady lightning venom Nal lightning venom No, no no no no Exactly

Remember at the end though like Here's all the memories We had of venom Of course I remember all the memories of venom I mean that's not just what happened He also walked into the acid factory or whatever He did Because they were at Area 51

And they were melting everything Belting everything in the asset factory, yes And Reese Ephens was there or whatever Yes Even though he was the lizard That's correct, yeah Great Man can be two lizards

Yeah, that's true Now the Venom movies Despite being bad They were successful Correct We can all agree on that Monetarily But there were other spin-off

Spider-Man movies that were not Name one I can name three Okay, do it Adam Webb Morbius The Mr Morbius Man Correct.

Craven the Hunter. That's right. Are you happy with that? I'm very unhappy. Do you want to name three more? If you could. I can't. Those are the ones they did.

Sony CEO Tom Rothman was speaking to Matt Baloney on The Town, which is his podcast something. He's a Hollywood fella. And he was asked if they were going back to live action Spider-verse movies. And he said, yes. And he was asked something along the lines of, will this be a fresh reboot? And he said, yes, we will have new people. Okay. Sure.

Okay. But what does that, does he even know what that means? No, I don't think you know. If you ask this, if you ask a CEO of a company that makes media, are you going to do a reboot? Do they know what that is necessarily? I think so. They don't have to know.

It's not their job to know. Exactly. That's right. The job's shareholder. They'll say, I know it's going to make money or I'll find someone who can make money. This better make money. I'm putting this out here to all my little content goblins. This better make big money.

and if it doesn't make big money you're out and I'm going to replace you with AI and then when that obviously doesn't work because I can't even get an article about Venom right I'll replace you with more I'll replace the AI with more goblins with more beers

more beers more beers bloody yeah bloody wouldn't mind a few more beers Friday Friday Arvo after work okay you know what's crazy about this as well like that's good

thank you is that like I don't think they realize that the reason the venom were successful is because Venom is also a very popular character. Yeah. And I think they thought, oh, he's a villain or whatever. Yeah.

Let's do some other popular villains. Venom is on a different level. Absolutely. Than those other three. Like, a way different level. You see people, I mean, like, even way prior to the Venom movies, you'd see people just wear a Venom t-shirt because it's a cool iconic look. Yep.

You know, on a shirt or whatever. You're not seeing Craven on a shirt. No. Not seeing Madem. Madam Webb on a shirt. Or Jared Leto on a shirt. Jared Leto on a shirt. Damn.

He did say this also, which I think is interesting. Maybe he entered into evidence. He might have. For a crime. Yeah, he probably should. They should enter him into it. Like how shredded died. You can say woodchipper.

Like I was shredded died. Oh, in a... But actually kill him. In a dump truck. I understand. Actually crush into death. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand.

I'm only saying that because it's what everybody wants. I know. It's not even my idea. Absolutely. We get a lot of emails about that. Yeah, yeah. He said, Ask Grock and Grock.

Fox said. Kill him. Yeah. Kill him immediately. So I'll tell you this. There are two people who I would never, I would say this and maybe more if I think about it. Okay. This is great.

Maybe is. But there are two to come to top of mine. Never been, since Jim Cameron, I never bet against Kevin Feige. He knows what he's doing. He said Marvel engaged in course correction, less television. I think it was to the television and the elaborateness of the interconnected. It did, the connection. I've already lost my place in this.

I don't know who you're talking about. Okay. So the series. the CEO of Tony is talking about Marvel. Okay. Well, we're not talking about Marvel. No, no, I'm talking to him. We're not talking about Marvel CEO of Sony.

Don't try and trick people in thinking you have anything to do. You don't have anything to do with Marvel. You're riding on their coattails. You're nibbling up their crumbs and their leftovers. Don't try. It's too late. Maybe this is a second attempt. But also, it's too late to do that because Marvel's fortunes are fading as well.

Like, now's not the time. Well, he said the mandate, was that Figer was given, Disney basically made him do that interconnective Disney plus thing. But he'd say he's a good corporate soldier, so he did what he was asked. But I think he knows very well now. A degree less will be more, and it'll be much more,

have no worries about Avengers Doomsday's Days, guys. I don't, I mean, I don't, I think Avengers Doomsday could be incredible, but you don't know that. Uh-huh, yeah. You don't have the knowledge. If you've seen it or know the script or whatever, you can't look at that and tell me whether it's good or not. That's not how your brain works, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, I'm not saying it isn't, but I'm saying he doesn't know. No, true, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know, Morbius and whatever is all I'm saying. So anyway, more Spum. More Spum reboot. Maybe they'll actually put Spider-Man in some of them.

Unlikely. What are you going to pay for Tom Holland? Never another one? They're doing a Nicholas Cage Spider-Man TV series, so whatever, I guess. I don't know, man. I mean, I think they might get Andrew Garfield. They might. You know, he's cheaper, presumably.

Absolutely, you know. Exactly. But then again, maybe his price goes up because they're like, well, you can't get Tom Holland. Yeah. Tom Holland's, you know, eight figures of movie or whatever. They'd be comparable wage-wise, wouldn't you say? No, no, no. You know, no, not these days, no.

I don't know. Maybe they could get Toby McGuire, get him away from his 20-year-old girlfriend and get him to come back. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. Everything's great. Everything's great and good. Should we move on to the review?

Yeah. Speaking of things that are great and good. Fuck, I just look at it. it through this, this news. Just fucking bad stuff, man. Yeah. Bad stuff.

We don't have any good stuff this week? That's a shame. Have an off one every once in a while, I suppose. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, let's do a scream review. Speaking of off ones. Yeah. Scream 7.

On a budget of, um... That was that applause from earlier. Oh, it must have been the delay. That's what I'm saying. Because they're so far away. Came from the horizon, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Wow.

Well, better late than never I say. What do you say? I say, I hope that callback, it healed the wounds from all that bad news. And I think it did. I did say in between, I was like, I need to be more positive. I'm like, I just feel like I just had a bad time then and everybody would have experienced me having a bad time. Yeah.

But now we're talking about Scream 7. So I can't promise anything. Yeah. But I can't promise that a budget of $45 million for reasons we'll talk about. The last one was $35 million. The box office for this, it looks like it's going to have about a 60 million US opening. Probably more. And 20 million maybe more for the rest of the world

This is big opening for Scream This is good Not as big as big as six Bigger Oh okay Yeah big movie This version It's worth mentioning happened because

This particular version Yeah Like this script happened because Melissa Barrera Who was in the previous two She was one of the new generation She was Of Screamers Yeah she was

She spoke out against the genocide In Palestine She was fired because of that General Ortega left after that So did the director So the director, Christopher Landon. Who was going to be directing this one? Yes.

So they brought in some guy? They did. We'll talk about who that is. He said he left because the film he wanted to make no longer existed. Skeet Allrich was also set to return in that version because he was the father of Melissa Barrear's character and whatever. Yep. So Scream series writer Kevin Williamson stepped in. He directed Teaching Mrs. Tingle and then this.

Uh-huh. They also... And the sequel, Tingle all the way. They did it. What was Teaching Mrs. Tingle? Was she a psycho? I don't remember. Oh, you?

know what it was, is Katie Holmes in it? That sounds right. Somebody's trapped in a house with an old... Katie Holmes is trapped in a house with an old lady or something? Did they kidnap Mrs. Tingle? Oh, yeah. That's what I... Oh, Halen Hunt is Mrs. Tingle.

Mrs. Tingle? I was... Yeah, she's going to do something about her great and so they... Oh, I was, yeah. And it stars, What About Brian's Barry Watson? What About Brian? Remember that show What About Brian? Nope.

Nope. Let me check. Okay. I'm What About Brian? Look, they're like, What about Brian? He's from 7th Heaven. Oh, vaguely.

Oh, what about Brian? Let him go. Don't worry about him. That could also be like a fake show in 30 Rock or whatever. Yeah, good. Like the actor's there and it's like, what, you don't remember him if you're bought about Brian? What about Brian?

You know? So yeah, they also, they couldn't afford Neve Campbell on the last one. Or I mean, they could have paid for. No, they could have. And she's like, I'm not doing this for less money. Yeah. They needed her for this. So they ended up paying her $7 million.

Great. Scream 7, 7 million dollars. Yeah. Courtney Cox got $2 million. It also had a $500,000 script rewrite. You can see every cent of that on screen. Anyways, as I've written here, what do you think that's... Chat to GPT, give me a $500,000 script to rewrite, please.

Okay, and good call. Good choice. Good choice. You're the best. What do you think the store we was? Okay, so, okay. So, also, just to be clear, you don't need to see this movie. If you're a scream completest

What I should say is my history People who are regular listeners The podcast will know I'd not seen a scream movie Until you and I did a commentary For the first one In the lead up to scream six And then I watched two through five

In a weekend And then I watch six And I'm like This is a good franchise I get it I understand why people have stuck with this so long It's originally a Wes Craven joint It was a Wreibern joint

RIP And I'm like Oh I get it This is smart It's funny You know the cast is good. Meta.

It's a bit, it's quite meta. Jack Quaid sometimes. You know, and I would say even up to six, they'd been very good at kind of pulling out obscure references from the early ones and sort of inserting them relatively seamlessly into the new ones. And horror tropes and trends. Troops and trends, exactly. You don't need to watch this one.

It doesn't do anything like that nearly as deftly as any of the previous ones. It takes a very half-hearted shot of like metacomontry. There's nothing really like, again, We've seen a bunch of horror movies in the last couple of years. I don't think any of this is like, oh, this very much reflects the current state of horror movies or anything like that. Because also what we have with this is we get a couple of the previous cast members of the previous couple of...

I like a lot. Yeah, the new, the twins. And they're like, they're popping off with like kind of and this is what you do in a sequel and blah, blah, blah. But then they've got just Neve Campbell who's operating in a quite a generic kind of, I'm in fear of my family horror movie. Yeah, exactly. She doesn't even really feel like she's that much in a scream movie. No, and she's done that before too.

Yeah, and if you take, if it wasn't Neve Campbell and it was just a different woman protecting her family from a generic killer, it wouldn't feel like a scream movie all, really. But then you, it feels like these two, they're attempting a sort of, it's like a fairly generic, this feels like a late, one of the later Rambo movies. Yeah. In the sense of like, well, it's just a generic... You kind of...

You did a legacy sequel already. Yeah. And this is sort of that again. But it's not done as well. And because they're kind of like, oh, these are the rules. And then they're really... And they basically say it. They go, who cares?

Yeah, this doesn't even really have this as the rules in it. No. And they sort of start and they go, oh, because she's Sydney, Prescott or whatever. And it's like... And then they're like, who gives a fuck. Okay, Tony, so the story is... Screams back. This was all the ruse, James.

So I could think of what the story was. Screams back. Start with this. Screams back. He's back, but not well. So Sydney Prescott lives in some town. Yep, she's married to Joel McAle. She's married to John McHale.

She's married to John McHale. He's the police chief. Yeah. He's not Patrick Dempsey. I think they initially wanted because he was in three. Oh, yeah. And they were together or whatever. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it screams back. And they've got a daughter. And she's like, well, I don't like, I'm a classic teenage daughter. I don't. I'm a coward. I'm a coward. and then screams back

Mr. Scream goes hello I'm back Screams back and is like Who could I be this time And you'll figure it out You will immediately figure it out This what I think What I thought was interesting about this movie

Is aesthetically it's sort of It aesthetically it feels like a scream movie Because it's got Everybody in it feels like they're from the 90s Everybody's got 90s haircuts Everybody wears a t-shirt With a button upshirt unbuttoned in front.

The boyfriend is a generic 90s guy. Yeah, and it's all, it's all, it's all, did you notice that? Yeah, it's all, that's what I'm saying. It's all 25 year olds playing teenagers. Oh, she's, um, Sydney Prescott's daughter who's literally 25. I knew it. I've done to do it.

Because I looked it up because I'm like, I don't think she's a high school kid at all. Which is a classic 90s thing of like, you know, just get obviously grown adults to play teenagers. I think need Campbell is good. Yeah. She's good as always. I think her daughter's pretty. solid in as well. They don't do much with Courtney Cox. They kind of hint towards she's taking pills

and they're kind of like she's got like a tremor and they're like, what happened to in the last one she was probably stabbed. She's probably stabbed in the hands or they had all that. I thought it was going to be like, oh, maybe she's got, I thought they're going to lean to like the consequences of, if not injuries like her getting older. Maybe she has Parkinson's or something. I don't know. Yeah. But it was just kind of like. Maybe she's met Matt Parkinson. Maybe she met Matt Parkinson. Is that the guy's name? Yeah, sure. Yeah. The talk show host. Because she's in the media.

What's his name? I just know him as Parkinson. Michael Parkinson. Michael, maybe she did. But it's just kind of like... Also, the thing about this movie is, and the reason I think it is inessential, is because it doesn't innovate in the way we've talked about.

Like, there's nothing that integrates like the modern, you know, horror tropes or, you know, what's happening in the horror industry right now, I don't think. It takes a really half-hearted swipe at deep fakes and AI, but it's... It's weak. Yeah. It's poorly done.

Yep. And it's weak commentary. And what I would also say, and again, without attempting to spoil this, we'll get into spoilers in a minute, I think. If you are a scream completest, if you're like, well, I saw the previous six, I grew up with him, I loved them. Do I see this? You know, is it worth, you know, there's a lot of controversy around this movie? Do I continue to support this franchise?

Because I simply must know what element of law is going to tie all the. the new characters and the old characters and, you know, what twist is going to, am I going to be astounded by a twist in that you're not? No. It's not, it's, you'll know. Yeah. You'll know who it is. Process of elimination.

Right. And just being like, oh, that person was in it earlier and they haven't been in here for a while. Oh, there they are, aren't they? I think there's some pretty gory kills in this. I think the opening is pretty good. Yeah, the opening is sort of, it's got a sort of a cold open. Yeah. Which they always do.

Yeah. I mean, I guess that is the, innovation because this, you know, a lot of this, a lot of these movies have been about, you know, the media circus. Why would you go to the screen house? You wouldn't do it. You know, the media, you know, it's about the media circus around. Yeah. These, you know, various characters have written books about the original and, you know, but it's always about that also. That's what I'm saying. That's not new. But I guess the new part of this is that the, the original scream house has been, uh, is now an Airbnb, I guess. And it's, it's a sort of a scream experience and it's got, you know,

they've got props and they've got a, you know, sort of an escape room, but not really at all. And it's got, and the opening sequence is two new characters who are, you know, a couple and they've booked it for the weekend or whatever. And one's a huge horror fan and one's just sort of humoring the boyfriend or whatever. You know. I know. Which, you know, and Scream Six, I think had Samara weaving. Yes. Yes.

In the cold opening, maybe. Yeah, and it turned out to be a fake. Yeah. Fake scream guy. Also, yeah, so there are some returning actors. but you probably would have seen in the trailer really not a good use really

I would say bad and disappointing and could possibly even like ruin that down the line or they bring them back later and it's like well then what does this one mean? Yeah right uh-huh I'm gonna say worst movie ever I mean it's certainly not the best movie ever Also like I've seen

I think it was maybe John Campier did a review that was like this is one of the worst movies ever made It's not No, but it's not... It's just not that good. It's not good. It's not... It's not great.

It's not essential. You won't be like, ah, I see, you know, I'm reinvigorated and I'm excited to see where the new car... You know, sometimes with a, kind of have a legacy movie. You go, oh, there's a new cast and an old cast.

I'm looking forward to see how they'll interact in future. I don't care. I didn't mind the use of her new friends. One's from Madam Webb. Oh, and it's got... McKenna Grace. Yes.

Is that a name? It is McKinney. She's in the Ghostbusters movies. great movies. Yeah. You love them. Two great movies. You love movies.

I do, don't I? So, I alas, I'm going to say, worst movie ever. But it's... Again, people are fine in it. Yeah. It's fine. It'll make a lot of money and they'll do another one. Okay, spoilers.

Time for big spoilers, folks. It's time for big spoilers, folks. We're going to spoil this. We're going to spoil every screen movie, probably, the ones that I can remember. I will say this. Up top, so this is a spoiler. There's three scream killers, and they kill one of them early on. Yes.

And I think that's good. I think the idea that you get one of them early. And then it's like, who is this? Yeah. How is this connected? I think that in itself is an interesting idea. Hmm. But then it's not.

Yeah. So because there's almost all, there's only one scream movie where it's only one scream killer, right? And it's the guy. It's that guy. It's four? Three or four? I don't remember. It's the one guy who made the movie.

Jack Quaid. No, he doesn't, no, he has help. No, no, no. Oh, you're talking about Neve Campbell's brother. It's three? Yeah. Is that three or four? Yeah.

Scott. I was going to say Scott Wolf. He's not Scott Wolf. He's got a Scott Wolf. He's got a 90s. He's got a very 90s. He's in this movie as well. He is for as a deep fake guy. It felt a little bit like, you know, in, is it Spector? Yeah. Where Bond just walks through the room of A4 photocopies of all these villains. Yeah. And they're like, actually, this was, this was Christoph Waltz all along. Ha ha. Great. It's really good. So we'll get to who the killers are.

but again like we said and I think this is sort of a this is it's a trick it's an attempt because there's no there's no real underlying reason why this guy would be the killer or girl

but I think they've just gone well he's from the same era and that ties it together so one of the killers is Ethan Embry and immediately you're like oh that's Ethan Embry from he was in Can't Hardly Way

from the 90s he was in time line They're not going to just put him in this. And he's just going to be a guy. But I think they've gone like, well, we don't have any law reason. And it's not a character who was in a previous Scream movie. Yeah. But people will remember him from other movies from that era.

And they will sort of tie that together in their minds. And they'll go, well, this makes sense that he's one of the scream killers. But also it's like, he's just a guy. Yeah, exactly. I think. So what he was doing, and it's also her neighbor, a woman who read her book. Yes. So he's deep faking stew, the original killer, one of the original killers.

Matthew Lillard. Who probably died. Scoober to do. Yeah, but probably didn't. We're probably going to see him alive in a future movie. And so Matthew Lillard is in this and he does some FaceTime calls and they're kind of discussing whether or not he's real, whether or not this is a deep fake or whatever. But then later they go to a mental hospital.

It's called a mental hospital. Hospital. And they meet Ethan Embry and they. and they show a picture of Matthew Lillard and he goes, oh, that's a guy who came in here and he didn't have his memory. Because he was hit in the head with a television. Yeah, exactly.

And immediately I go, oh, it's him then. Yeah. Because that's not true. Yeah. So you figured that one out immediately. And I figured it was the woman because she was in it earlier and she hadn't been killed. And she also mentions her abusive husband. Yeah.

Isn't around anymore. And you're like, well, she killed him. And they try to fake it out because her son gets murdered, but she doesn't care. Yeah. And so the. reveal of both of those were just like, I know. Yeah. And they go, okay, well, I went, she goes, oh, I went.

She goes, I went to the mental hospital and that's where I met Ethan Embry. And it's like, okay, well, they've tied those two together, but they haven't really tied that together to the overall law of the Scream universe. No. And I think it's, where was Hayden Panettiere? It's a good, well, she died in the last one. I don't remember. No, she was shot, I think.

Okay, great. Yeah, but she's in the FBI. Although you're not shot in the head, as they talk about in this again and again, you will survive. Yeah. But I think it is, it's interesting. because they have to be like it's always someone you know. Yeah.

And in this, the someone they know is the woman introduced in this movie who live next door to her. Yeah. And so who's reasoning for, who's reasoning for killing. And I guess, and again, it's this thing where they, and we've talked about this in, you know, other movies where there's great, quote unquote, crazy people where it's like, well, her logic doesn't make any sense, but she's crazy. So it doesn't have to make any sense. Yeah. Because she wants to kill. She wants to kill.

Sydney rescued her from her abusive relationship. So she wants to now kill she wants to kill Sydney so that her daughter will become a new Sydney. Yeah. So she will become the new killer of the ghost faces. Yeah. I guess. But it's also like because she keeps being like

of you've lost your step, you're not the same. But she's very like in previous movies she's been in hiding. Yeah. And she's changed her name and she's living in complete paranoia. Where in this, like she's not. Yeah. She's just living her life.

and she's like, and I'm going to, and there'll be scream people. Also, and I'll deal with that. The last time, it was at five, was the last time it was Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell. Yeah. And at the end, don't they just go, well, time to do this again. And they just kick the door and they kill everybody. Yeah, that's right. Like it's just, they haven't lost a step.

No, no, no, no. You're crazy to think, because they're just, the, I like, the thing that I liked about, which I think was five, is they're just like, time to do this again. Yep. Like, we're so good at killing ghost faces now. It's not even like, I'm so scared. No. Like, let's kill these guys there.

I thought it was quite fun and this doesn't feel that there is the moment of course where her and her daughter just shoot the woman in the head a bunch of time and the whole head comes off yeah that was fun yeah I guess yeah that's fun I guess yeah it's fun so there's also some other cameos at the end when they go and confront the killers

yeah and they go in and Scott Wolf is there Scott Wolf is there and it's Stu Matcher and Matthew Fox and the killer from The two rivals yeah the two rivals of the animal kingdom and one of the killers mothers there but they're all being they're all deep faked and it's and duie is there yeah and they're all deep faked and they get a fun little sitcom credits at the end it's just way yeah it's like a zoom call though

it's like a zoom call they did in covid it's like dick tracy it is it's dick it's Tracy zooms in yeah it's so weak yeah and low effort yeah and looks like shit yeah and and i think if you're gonna bring back stew which again i think they will absolutely properly because matthew lillard's has a little bit of, you know, a little, you know, everybody wants him to come back. And he was going to in three. And he was going to. And, you know, he's had a little career boost recently with the Five Nights at Freddy's. And then Quentin Tarantino was mean about it.

So he's back in the media. You know, James, it reminds me of that time they brought back Jason Todd in hush, but then it wasn't actually Jason Todd. It was Clayface pretending to be Jason Todd. And then they were like, no, let's bring him back for real by having Superboy Prime punch the walls of reality so hard that Robin comes back to life. Do you think that's what's going to happen to him? That's exactly what's going to happen. Superboy Prime is going to punch Matthew Lillard's character back to life. I mean, they are, right?

He's just going to be alive. Also, like, you can't, you can't... I think this lessens that, though. Yeah, I would also say this would be more than probable cause to just dig the body up and be like, oh, there's nobody in the coffin. Okay, well, he is still alive then. Like, if there are multiple people being murdered and the culprit seems to be Matthew Lillard, Also, I feel like they could have done that in this.

I never, when he appeared on the Zoom call and they said deep fake, I was like, he's not really in this. Also, he's good. He's great in a Zoom call. Yeah, of course. I think he did a good performance for what he was given. Yeah, yeah. But they go like, oh, the record, he's the record of his body in the morgue has been disappeared. And I thought they were going to go dig up the body and it wasn't there.

Is it like another fake out? But they don't. Yeah. So, again, it's just kind of like, all right. I'll also, um, I would say, of these movies. I mean, it's true, it's probably true of a bunch of these movies, but I would say one of the strongest cases of plot armour

for notable characters and name characters as opposed to the others. Like, if you are, if you are Neve Campbell or Neve Campbell's daughter or Joel McHale, you can survive anything. Yes. Or if you are the two twins who are going to be back for

sequels, presumably you can get stabbed directly in the chest and you won't die. Joel McHale survived seemingly for hours, Yeah. Having been really... Nine hundred times. But like everybody else, you trip and you... Like, they're...

And again, you know, the idea is like, well, the scream... Ghost face isn't that good at killing. You know, sometimes it's a little bit random, but it's like, all right, we can kill... Everybody else you can kill in one stab. Yeah. Stab. Nice. But not these guys, you know what I mean?

No, absolutely not. Yeah. It is what it is. Hell yeah, brother. Variety reported earlier this week, which makes it last week. Insiders suggest plans are already. in place for The Killers Lethal Return in an eighth film. Yep.

But the franchise executive and producer Marianne Madelana said Scream 8 may begin in fall, may begin filming, shooting in fall. But that's, we don't know yet. We don't know. It will. If not, they'll probably be won out by end of next year. And look, I would say props to Neve Campbell for now holding all the cards. Absolutely.

I mean, push for 15 million next time. And they should bring back, Melissa Barrera, if she wants to do it. I don't think they will. I mean, if this is like this. No, I mean. Because this, I mean, what. But also, there might be like money and that speaks louder than anything else.

Yeah, exactly right. What they've done, I mean, what what the success of this is would prove to them, okay, well, we don't need. We don't need any trouble makers. We don't need any, anybody who speaks out against anything kind of thing. Also, this cost me $37.75. Money well, spend. Disagree.

Why did you spend that much money? Well, it was the only session I could get to. and it was ScreenX and reclining seats. ScreamX. I think that's how they got me. Screen X is the one where there's extra bits on the sides. You know what? Useless.

Distracting, annoying. Also, it gives you a little notification at the start of the movie. It's like, but be sure to look at the front screen because that's where most of the stuff is happening. That's where all of the stuff is happening. It's where all the stuff is happening. That's where all the movie is.

The rest was just not really a movie. Just lights, pretty much lights and like bits of a house where things aren't happening. This is my second experience with Screen X. the other one was Tron areas and at least I had stuff. Yeah, I mean, it would have had bits and bites or something. 3775, that's crazy.

That's a bargain. If you like look at shit. I don't. I wish I was looking at good things. Yeah, but if you liked looking at shit, that's money well spent. I guess, yeah. It's a good shirt, by the way.

Thank you. I was going to be like speaking of shit, your shirt. It's good, actually. I like it. It's good. Thanks, man. Anyway, this, yeah, this is. William Gallagher founded this company.

Did he? Yeah. Oh, it's your best mate. Yeah, I know. This is a weak screen movie. Yeah. As I finished, I'm like, oh, this is kind of middling. I think it's worse than middling.

I think it's pretty weak. I think the, look, they don't need our endorsement or otherwise. But this, I think if we wait, I saw this today. I think if we'd wait at a couple more days, I'd be more critical. Yeah, no, I definitely got more critical. Given more time to think about it, I'll be like, oh, yeah. The back end, like, at the time really soured me. But then the more I think, thought about it, I've become.

even more pessimistic, Mason. Maybe that's just life getting me down. Not this week. Not this week. It's been a good week. Good week. And there's a war with Iran. That's happening literally right now. Literally as we're recording this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, just happening. Just happening. So we don't know. All right. Let's move to the next segment of the show. Let's do it. What is it?

It's what we read. What else is it? What we're going to read. All right. I'm doing nothing. This is a great. segment. It is a great segment. We talk about things about watching, listening, doing, etc. I just want to say there are the Star Wars, the comic that we looked at for the Big Sandwich

Comic Book Club, is now up at Big Sandwich.com. And not only that, we're doing video ones now because Surabi is editing them as videos. That's very exciting. So yeah, please check that out if you are signed up. Amazing. She's doing incredible work. And I don't like that comic. But it's interesting. It is interesting, isn't it? And it was a fun episode. It was a very fun episode to record. It was very, yeah, for people who don't know, it's the Star Wars is the, the early 1970s script that the first script for Star Wars that George Lucas came up with. And it's been put into comic book form and it's not very good. No, so we talk about that. But it's interesting. It is interesting. It goes to a bit short of 33 minutes, the video, and there's also an audio version.

Very good. So, yeah, it's pretty cool, man. Well, Scream 7 isn't the only movie I watched today. Oh, what else you watch? I watched a big trouble in Little China. I went Oh, he went to the re-release. Because that's not the reboot that we're going to do with the rock or whatever a few years back. No, no, that's right. So I watched a part of,

in Melbourne, it's called Monster Fest. And they did Monster Fest, the Monster Fest weekend in 1986. They did the Fest. They did the, stop coughing. They did the malls. I'm doing a bit. I'm doing a bit.

Well, I'm coughing over. I knew, I knew this was going to be your best bit yet. And I was like, you know what? I better ruin it midway. What did you say, James? They did the fest They did the monster Where did they do it

They did it in a cinema Nice They did the fest Did they dress up the cinema Like a graveyard No they did it Regular cinema How much were the tickets

20 25 bucks That seems reasonable It was reasonable Yeah It was the weekend in 1986 So it's just been a bunch of movies From 1986

So the fly Aliens? No not there Oh I guess it's more of an action movie. It's a big trouble. It is, yeah, yeah, but it's, you know what?

I've never seen it. It was really good seeing it with an audience. God, I bet. People were having a great, like a great time. I don't watch that. What it is, is because it's also... How are I never seen that? I don't know.

But I think, because I'm seeing it, you know, on TV and I've got the DVD somewhere, but like, seeing it in cinemas, yeah, exactly. Smuggled it in the cinema. They never knew. But seeing it in the cinema, I don't know, it was just great, because you can't be distracted by anything. And like there's so much, and it's good to see the audience reacting to it. And these are the positives of the cinema, James.

Absolutely. And there's all sorts of funny little, just a bunch of funny gags and like so many little sight gags and so many like Kurt Russell is Jack Burton, the kind of the guy who, you know, he's got a huge ego and he claims he's seen it all and done it all. And then he gets thrown into this kind of supernatural situation in his way. out of his depth and he's really the sidekick ultimately in somebody else's adventure. But like, there's, you know,

he's always sort of puffed up and, you know, the thing. Ready to go. Ready to go. And like just all these kind of little looks where he's clearly terrified, but he can't show it to anybody else. And like, when you just really laser focused on the screen, you're like, oh, this is, this is good work. Yeah. This is good work.

Kirk Russell and the 80s. Speaking of Mortal Kombat because it's got the, it's basically got the guys who are, oh, yeah, the elder gods or whatever. Yeah. the three storms and they're like, they clearly inspired, you know, unpaid in immortal combat. God, it's great. It's so, it's so ridiculous.

Is that the director? He's John Carpenter, yeah. That's great. And now he just plays video games or whatever. Yeah, he's got a video game coming out, I think. Toxic commandos or something? He's a video game coming out. Well, I mean, his names on it.

I don't know if he's got anything to do with it. He's probably too busy playing bloody video games. He's probably too busy re-watching John Carter's Ghost of Mars. Yeah. But yeah, just fun. And the video game is John Carter of Mars Tabletop, according to Google AI. You know, I typed in John Carter, but I should type in John,

unless I didn't. Yeah, well, there it is. Toxic Commandos. What is this? I don't know, man. I see ads for it on Twitter. It's like a first-person zombie shooter thing? Yeah, it looks a little bit like Left for Dead, I guess.

Why is he? What is this? Oh, no, man. Sabre Interactive. They're all right, aren't they? I've heard the name. Polygon gave it a nice positive preview. Oh, nice positive preview.

It means nothing. Yeah, okay. What are you being watching already? Well, I've watched a bunch of stuff. All right. But I did watch the first two episodes of the Scrub reboot. Scrubs reboot, season 9, which is the real season 9, I guess, because the other season 9 doesn't count.

Okay. They wiped it out. Because the hospital in real life got bulldozed. Oh, no. So they've recreated it for this. Okay. For this. Pretty good.

Okay. It's a fun return. I didn't think I would like it as much as I did. Now, is it? Some of the people are dead, yes, in real life. Whether that's true Dr. Kelso. Is he dead? I don't know if he is.

The actor, he might be. Yeah. The actor who plays Ted is dead. He died, yeah. Yeah. Do they talk about that? No, not in the first two. Right.

Ken Jenkins is alive. Okay, there you go. Just declined to return. Fair enough. He was in air. Oh, I think he's 4940, yeah. But, you know, we've got the Todd is back. Okay, yeah.

You know? Well, yeah, so I was the exact Brath, Donald Faison. Sarah Chalk, Judy Rays, John C. McGinley is... He's in the first episode, at the very least. I hope he appears in more episodes. Okay. Now, is this... Is the premise of this...

Scott Foley. There's his name because he's in Scrubs. That's right. Just looking at the cast. Is the premise of this they are still working at the same hospital or they all come back? Summer. Summer there and JD comes back. Okay.

Yeah. And he's got classic JD doing things or whatever. Is he off in his own... Yeah, he does his own little dream things and whatever. And does it feel like it's, let me ask you this, if you'd never seen Scrubs before and you watch this, would you be like, I don't know what's happening here. What's, is this?

I think you could follow it. Yeah, but I don't think, I don't think you'd get as much out of it. Yeah, right. But I think it still works it as a, because Scrubs is also, and I don't, it's apparently one of the most realistic looks at working in a hospital. Right, uh-huh. But, oh, Neil Flynn's not in it either.

Or at least he's not yet. The janitor. The janitor, which is a shame. But I know, I think it does, capture like the essence or the first or the list of what made. I think a lot of scrubs. Is it sad? Is it a little bit sad? It's definitely.

I mean, is it a little bit sad? No. Oh, this is sad seeing like a catch. Like a cash. No. It doesn't feel like that. No. But again, two episodes. So maybe down the line. Are they all out now? Is it just the first two around? No, it's just the first two. What's this on? What are you watching? It's on Hulu or

Disney or whatever. Australia. Oh, maybe I'll watch. Maybe I'll watch it. Maybe it's worth it. I think. I think if you're A car, fan, it's worth checking out. This card is about to... Die, explode? Well, it's nearly full. Uh-oh.

So it's letting it. So, maybe between segments, I'll have to stop and clear the card a bit. And we'll download it all to your phone because I know you like keeping all the... Got all my screenshots. I got all the raw files. Believe it. You want to gum your phone up, don't you? Absolutely.

This is a... And this has got all the stuff we get too hot for podcasting. Exactly. That's your ringtone, for stuff that's too hot for podcast. That's exactly. That's exactly right. Is there anything else you're reading? Yes, but I'll get to it in a letter segment

Oh wow, let's do that then Well, here's the letters theme Oh, mate, we gotta stop We can't do this We don't have time What if the card gets full What if it kills us all We went out in style, didn't we?

No, beautifully That's an embarrassing way to die Very much so Memory cards, all right Oh hell yeah Like, I mean, no thanks to you But this is the letters You wanted to push through

You said let's listen to the theme song And I thought that was a really risky Endeavour Nearly killed us both It paid off, though, didn't it? In the end, it made us to think. Now we look like two absolute daredevils. It's true.

We do look like dare devils. Yeah, that's right. I'll give you that, but maybe I didn't want to look like a daredevil. You know? I want to look like a coward. I want to look like a coward. Damn. If you do want to reach the show, two dead devils.

You'll never get to the letter segment if you act like a cowardly. Well, we're in it. Oh, yeah, because of the daredevil thing. That's right. The planet brought- You mean daredevil in the generic sense. We're not both dressed as daredevil. No, one of us is dressed like Daredevil, though. That's correct.

So it has to be me, doesn't it? That's right. And there hasn't been enough time for me to change. No, canonically it's me. That's right. If you do want to reach the show to send a letter, Planet Broadcasting Grandmates Group on Facebook, you can throw something in there.

Yep. There's a thread every week. Or send Mason to Gmail to weekly Planetpot at Gmail. Yes. And it has to be Gmail because that's the only thing anybody uses. Because that's the world we live in. You ever get the Yahoo email? I don't think so.

I don't think so. Never getting an email from Yahoo series? I think so. I don't know if he knows how to use email. I think you'd have more work if you knew how to use email. I think that's what's holding him back. You think that's what's holding him back? Yep.

All right then. What do you got in terms of letters? Here's an email from Micah. Micah? Who says, well, lads, question mark. I don't know, am I? Have you guys been reading the Image comic Free Planet? It's my favourite new book, and combined sci-fi action and politics a lot like Andor.

Also, what has been your favorite of the DC? There's a lot of questions in this one. Also, what's been your favorite of the DC Absolute books? Mine's Martian Man. Mine's also Martian Man. I've only read Batman and Superman, so one of those. He's the meat of the question. James, any thoughts on DC and the Transformers comics thumping Marvel in sales?

Because apparently that is, that is happening. I mean, Marvel is getting killed at the moment. I think it's the synergy thing. Yeah, you reckon. It's the synergy thing. I think maybe we talked about it recently, maybe on the classic comic book club. Yeah. But I think it's the synergy thing.

It's the fact that Marvel keeps rebooting. Like, they keep doing number ones of everything. I don't like it. They seem to be, like, I saw this, like, earlier or last week, they were like, there's a new Wonder Man coming. coming out and guess what he's now a black wonder man and it's like but he's also in addition to the regular wonder man it's like you're late like yeah yeah yeah you should have done this beforehand yeah you should have done this beforehand you're doing synergy but you're like yeah well that's the

thing as well like that that that's i think part of it and like they're they're they're sanding off the cool interesting edges of their comic book characters so they look more like the the movie counterparts or whatever nick fury junior but it's it's it's too late i think for a lot of that and people people want i think people want i think people want i certainly want i'm of the comic books to remain as what they are. And then the MCU is great and good and fine as it is. No notes. No notes.

It's fine. But I think they should. And I think the fact that like you can go to DC and get absolute Batman and it's a six four nine working class Batman just tearing through all these Cthulu style monster versions of his rogue's gallery. I think that's interesting. It's also interesting that they're committing to that idea and they're not like and this ties into anything and there's an upcoming absolute Batman or whatever movie or

it's just like we think this is interesting and I don't think Marvel has that they're not like we think this or they'll have an interesting idea then they'll throw it away and start a new number one like you said I mean we often talk about this when we do the comic with a bonus podcast about the comic books we will often struggle to think of a Marvel comic we should probably should do a Marvel one

we probably should we never go look at this we've look at this incredible thing Marvel's releasing this week we've got to talk about this yeah it's like yeah we should because we've talked DC and image an independent and dark course and whatever else we should get to Marvel eventually but we're just, we often struggle with like oh Captain Marvel is there one currently?

Predator versus Wolverine? That's exactly right. Which is what we did. Yeah. Oh but speaking of the other thing that I've been reading this week so the first main arc of the comic book the power fantasy is wrapped up. First 16 issues are out.

The trade for the third volume How are you feeling about the conclusion? Oh, I loved it. Really? Okay. For real. I should be a feature. I've mentioned, well, we did. We did an episode on it.

But it's for people who don't remember my previous rants and raves about this comic book, it's about an earth in which six people have incredible superpowers. They are referred to as the superpowers. They each have enough destructive potential to destroy the world. And the premise of the series is, well, I hope they all get along. Because if they don't, like if there are various political machinations and their wants and desires and needs. Or someone just shoots a laser with someone else.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, like if, you know, if governments decide they don't want to work with these people anymore, what's going to happen? And that is, yeah, and if you might be like, well, you know, it's a series about people not fighting. Well, it gets to a head. Let me tell you. So the sort of the final arc of this run,

incredible and didn't go where I expected it to. Like a big surprise. So this is the writer, Kieran Gillen, and artist Casper Wingard. I should finish this. I mean, I really did enjoy it. Yeah, it's really, really good. Okay.

And it's continuing also. Like, that's in the back matter of the last, because there was some concern, maybe it wasn't going to continue, but it's been put in a position where it can, and they're like, we're going to solicit a new run in like a few months. So that's good to go, I think.

Great. All right, cool. Yeah. Well, I think we answered all those questions, or maybe we didn't. This is from Nicole Lee in the great mate's group. She said, You didn't have to watch movies as a job.

Would you use Rotten Tomatoes slash other reviews to decide whether to watch a movie? Let's say it's a movie you're kind of 50-50 on. I don't know. I just see things that I think would interest me. Yeah, when I was, like when Rotten Tomatoes first was a thing, I love going through all the, every... Especially when I was like, oh, this movie looks bad. I'm not going to just read all the bad reviews and scoff at it or whatever. But now I haven't touched Rotten Tomatoes in years, really.

I was going to say, I don't really even bring it up here. Yeah. Like it doesn't come up. I talk about box office. Yeah, I mean, it's, for me,

it's still the old school way of like trailers and it's a director or a star that I like. Sometimes if I'm like, I've heard this isn't great, but I'm interested in this. I'm going to see it anyway.

Sometimes I'm just like, I want to go to movies. Sometimes it's good to go to movies. Yeah. I actually love movies. Actually, I would be interested to know, like,

what are people, maybe someone could put this thread in the great mates group. What determines what people, like, see, to see a movie. And some people, I know a lot of people might see a movie

because we say we're going to see a movie so they can listen to us talk about it. Aside from that. Aside from Scream, don't worry about it. Yeah, don't worry about it. You don't need to. I'd be interested to know what influences people to see a movie.

Sometimes it's good to sit in a movie. Don't you reckon? Even watching Scream 7, I was like, God, it's good to sit in a movie though, isn't it? But then I, in watching Big Trouble Little China, I'm like, it's good to watch a good movie. Yeah, that's even better. So I trumped that.

Yeah. I think you did. You got me. I did get you. I got you good brother. Yeah, I appreciate it. What's the next email? Ooh, the YouTube channel

The Bad Movie Bible has just released a video, A Guide to the Many Accents of Stephen Segal. I'm going to watch that later. I love there's a, maybe this is in the video, but there's a clip of him talking about all his heritage. Oh, yes. And it's just him being like,

I'm a quarter Japanese, oh, I'm half. He's probably Native American. Yeah, absolutely. It's an impossible amount of, like, different. There's also an A Hoy video currently out, when video games were brown. I don't know what that's about. It was, yeah.

That was in like the Gives of Warrior. There was a brown era. Here's an email from Justin. Yes. Dear James Amaso, have you having a great day. I'm a huge fan of having been listening and watching since 2015. My question is, what bothers you guys more? A really good movie that bombs at the box office

or a really bad movie that returns a huge profit at the box office, which is kind of like what we've got this week. Because Scream, not great. Doing very well. The good movie's doing badly. That bothers me because... Well, Justin says, personally, it bothers me more

when a good movie bombs. Yes, I agree. Because, like, if a bad movie does well, it's like, okay, I guess we'll get more of these. It's good for movies. It's good for movies, exactly. Like Super Mario Brothers animated, not for me at all. Exactly.

It did well, but that's, I always say... Maybe you can fund other projects which are good. That's what I'm saying, right? That's something like that is unlike, well, it's keeping cinemas open for another year, I guess. Exactly. But if it's a good movie that bombed, it's like, well, that's hurt a bunch of people,

and now we're not going to get something like this. Not even like, going to get a sequel to this. It's just like, well, you're not going to get a, they're not going to take a swing at something. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's like a mid, a mid budget movie or whatever. Yeah. I mean, it's too much to hope that executives will see the success of a bad movie doing well and go, well, movies are back. Let's fund some smaller stuff. Like, it's just, it's just by accident, really. Yes. Or whoever they have a good meeting with or whatever. But yeah, it's when a, it's when a good movie does not do well. Yeah. And you have to be like, you've got to see this.

And people like, I will. I will. You won't. You won't. You're a liar. You goddamn liar. I got one from Emerson, Della Cruz, who says, Great name. Agreed. What is the most different opinion you and Mason have on a piece of media? I think the one that springs to mind is you saying all Jurassic Park movies are the same quality.

Which I still stand by. And it's just not true. Correct. It's not true. But I say, I know it's not true, but I'm standing by that opinion. I respect that. Do you have anything that your opinion is bad? I think I'm probably kinder about this.

show Obi-one than you were. Oh, absolutely. But I think it's only by like fraction of a percentage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And also I wouldn't fight you on that. No, we've also, yeah, like, I don't know. Because I don't think it's great. No, if we started this podcast in our early 20s.

Yeah, it would have been a difference. And who's to say we didn't. Yeah. I think we'd have the energy to be like, I'm, I'm mad. I'm mad and you're wrong. That's what we would have called it. I'm mad and you're wrong. What do we nearly call it?

We nearly called it. James and Mason hates everything or something. Something like that. That was before we even, that was like... Decades ago. Yeah, like, well before we started this. That was angry video game nerd era. Yeah, it would have been like, yeah, mid-2000s.

Like maybe even before he was on YouTube. Yeah. Before YouTube was a thing. We were pioneers in a way if we had have done it, which we didn't. That's right. But that was in the era where every, every, you know, kind of movie review channel, every nostalgia review channel, everything was like, this thing you like sucks. You're going to blast this out of your ass.

Exactly. Yeah. Well, we're not blasting anything out of anyone. one's orifices. No, we won't do it. You're allowed to keep it in your orifice. That's right. You're allowed to keep your copies of big trouble and little Chinatown in your ass as we talked

about. That's exactly right. Yeah. So do you have an opinion on the thing that? I don't have any opinions. We've definitely disagreed on things, but I don't know. No. The one that spring to mind was the last Thor movie, but like you would never defend that

movie again. No. I thought it was all right. No. Did I? I don't know. It's fine. It's not great or even good.

But I don't care. What do you think of that? It did ruin three good Thor comics. He sure did. Oh, at least three, yeah. I'll give it that. Yeah. What next?

This is from Michael. He says 20 plus years of fake allergies. Dear James and Mesa, I don't know. This is why I picked an interesting headline. Let's go. Dear James Mesa, for nearly all my life, I thought I was allergic to all peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish.

That's a lot. The worst part was Halloween as a kid when I can barely eat any candy bars since almost 100% have some form of nut. It's true. I completely avoided all of these into adulthood but thought I'd see if I was still allergic since it's possible to grow out of them.

I took a blood test and it turns out I'm not allergic to anything and maybe never was. What? How did this even happen? I don't know. Long story short, I need some suggestions to catch up on the best foods I've been missing out of for literally my entire life. It's not really our area of expertise.

We have eaten food though. Yeah, we've eaten a lot of food. I mean, I love shellfish. Some people develop a shellfish allergy later in life. I'm reading too much shellfish. No, I don't know what it is, but it's one of my greatest fears because I love shellfish. Oh. I love a lobster.

I love a Morton Bay bug, James. Yeah, well, my greatest fear is not reaching my full potential. Okay, right. I feel like I've exceeded any potential I've had, though. Oh, congratulations. I don't think I was supposed to be doing this. Yeah, maybe. God, I love nuts, James.

That's a good, man. And nuts and fish. Nats and fish. Is there any shelf, I don't like. Have a great tuna melt. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. That's good.

I don't like oysters. I've tried different versions. Not even oysters. I've eaten fresh oysters. Like, I've literally chipped one off a rock and eaten it. Kill Patrick. Which is that one again? That's, um, with bacon and whatever.

That's probably the most I can tolerate it. It's just a slippery, slimy, horrible. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I need a snail before I'd eat an oyster. Yeah, yeah. I always thought I was allergic to penicillin. Yeah. Because I'm like, well, my parents told me it was all on all my, you know, things.

And it never. and so on every medical form of allergic to penicillum, when we all had to get vaccinated, they were like, I was like, they looked at my form now, they were like, oh, you're allergic to penicillin. Maybe we'll have to make, you know, make your special vaccine or whatever. I'm like, no, they're like, we may not have to hold on on this.

And I'm like, no, what, I want to die? You know, and then the other day, I'm like, to my parents, I'm like, yeah, you know, and I'm always been allergic to panacillin. They're like, what do you mean? And I'm like, didn't you tell me? And they're like, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm like, I've been writing on my medical intake forms for like 30 years. and they're like, we don't know what you're talking about.

How did this happen? I don't know, man. Do you have a dream? Maybe. You might be allergic to penicillin. No, I don't know, though. I don't work my way out of it during the COVID. I'm like, I don't know, man.

So they gave it to you regardless. Correct, yes. And you're fine. I guess. I mean, there's no penicillin in it. I don't know, man. Well, I hear there's microchips in it. No, something less paranoid.

Well, I'm not allergic to microchips. I think they're good, actually. Yeah, they are good. Yeah. My brain is full of microchips and it's good. Microplastics. Yeah. Yeah.

Have a whole lobster, that's what I'm saying. Me. You could. Oh, this guy could. Michael could. I would like somebody to delob, like, get to do the hard part. Mm-hmm. So I don't have to do it.

Oh, yeah, that is an idea. Yeah, yeah. When you go to one of those places and they give you, like, the pliers and the, you know. Hey, I don't fucking work. I don't work here. You fucking do that. Just give me a bag of it. Give me a bag of me.

I also have a lobster sausage. Oh, yeah. Spectacular. Yeah. Just the good bits. Oh, like, you can get a lobster ravioli. Oh, isn't a lobster roll good? Yes.

Yeah. Where did we go recently, me and you? Went to a brisket place, didn't we? We did. In an industrial area. That's right? We didn't have lobster. No.

I feel like they should have had lobster, right? Yeah. God, it didn't seem like a lot of food, but that fucked me up. Yeah. It was like... The bearded pig. We'll give them a plug. Bered a pig.

They were up two days a week. I think it was because they ate like a brick of cornbread. Yeah. Well, you can't go there and order like one thing. No. If you're only going to be there once every six months. It didn't look like a huge. portion of food in front of us, man.

God, it's still sitting heavy in me. Still. Yeah, man. Wow. That was awesome. Deb and Ashish says, do you think cable will come back? The X-Men character? Or would you prefer a different type of media provider?

Slow down. No, no, no, James. I would prefer the mutant cable. To come back. Yes. Played by Josh Brolin. Exactly. Or James Brolin.

Child of... James Brolin. But also child of Cyclops and Jean Grey in a parallel universe. So that's true, actually. Time, I don't know what it is. Yeah, whatever. Cable are, I mean, it's kind of coming back. I was going to say, he says, I feel like people are already fed up with streaming and it's a bad business model.

Yeah, they're just packaging together streaming services now or one is buying the other. So it is the same model. It's just presented to you in a different way. I kind of, like, because we briefly had cable in Australia. Yeah, I never had it. Our family had it for a while, but it was never really a big thing. Like, it was a thing in America for 30 years and then it briefly. appeared in Australia.

And I was like, you watch Conan. And I'm like, that's pretty good. That was pretty good. Yeah. Conan was my favorite bit. But like it was kind of like they had a, I was thinking about it the other day. They had a channel. I mean, it's almost certainly gone now.

But like in the early 2000, they had like a channel like TV one and was just like retro American and British genre shows like, you know, Incredible Hulk. A team, Knight Rider, whatever. And it was kind of fun to just flip over and be like, huh, Colchack the Night Stalker. All right. I'll watch that. Oh, it's a middle age man running away from vampires. All right.

That's good. Good. He'll get a story out of that. That was the plot of Colchak, the night story out of it. Yeah, yeah. They're remaking the Rockford Files, James, did you know? Who with? David Boriannas.

Really? Yes. And who else from Bones? Bones. The character are Bones? Yep. Damn. And just Bones.

Bones? Yeah. All right. Big pile of bones. I like Bones. It's a good show. I've never seen it. Yeah.

He's like Nathan Philly and he's like never been unemployed. Yeah. Oh, must be nice. Since Buffy, basically. It was pretty good, yeah. Yeah, good for him. Must be nice. Must be nice.

Yeah, it's bad. I agree with you. It's a bad business model and it's proving to be bad and it's becoming more and more expensive and they're putting ads on them. So it's just fucking cable again anyway, isn't it? Maybe, you know what I would like? I guess I would like the option. Like I would like a kind of like streaming roulette.

I bet somebody's sort of cludged together like an app or like a... Clutch it is a good word. Like a Chrome extension. You made that up? Yep. Or like a Chrome extension where you could just switch. Switch on Netflix and it's just like, here's a random thing. And it starts midway through.

It starts 15 minutes in. Cludge is an ill-a-sorted collection of parts assembled to fulfill a particular purpose. That's right. You just said that. I just said that. It's already on Google. Yep.

Yeah, I know, man. That's amazing. Yeah. You plugged into the internet? Yep. All right. Yep. Got Elon Musk to put that chip in my brain.

That's good. That's good that you let him do that. Yeah. You got another email. Nope. I got one more from Trevor Nesbit, who said, James and Maiso. Yes, hello. I wanted to thank you.

I stole your Tom Holland, riff and I've been doing it for several years now. People don't know. It's when we pretend Tom Holland's a little British orphan boyning us. Hello, Tom Holland. Let me be Spider-Man. You're already Spider-Man, Tom. It's okay.

Hey, let me be it. You still can. Can I have $70 million? Your agent has... Seventy million British dollars. I mean, we don't have any choice. Your agent may just do that. Thanks.

Everyone thinks it's hysterical. Well, it is. And I came up with it on my own. That's what people think. Nice. So, thanks for the material. it's a surprisingly good icebreaker. No, it's not.

But, um, this. It's a, it would be a good icebreaker in a very specific set of circumstances, I feel like. Um, like you, you, you, you, you have, you have, you have, you have, um, you've, you've, you've, hit double zero on roulette or whatever. Somehow. Like, you, that could have gone, you could have lost your entire friend group. Exactly. Yeah.

Uh, to use in cell terms. Yes. It's like a four dating at nine or whatever. Absolutely. It is. Yes. How that happened. I mean, I actually don't know what you mean, but you can, you can.

clearly know what you mean. I've written here as a response because I wanted to remember, this is great, happy for you, and I am, but also you are robbing us of potential listeners because what you should be doing is recommending our podcast. But he can't now. Exactly. Now he can't.

It'll be undone. He could also say that I sent that in and started it, but eventually someone will get to this episode and hear this email and be like, he's been using that as an icebreaker for years. That's right. We know him as little orphan boy voice man. He says it's an actor.

don't know what it is. But God, it's good. Yeah, it's good that he debases himself in this way for our entertainment. Amazing stuff. Is that the show? That is the whole show. Amazing. We've done it again.

Amazing. We've done it again. What's next week, do you think? I don't know yet. Scrubs? No, I don't know. Okay. What do you think?

What do you think it should be? We'll think a son. Yeah, we definitely will. We always do it. It's got to be a big movie. Maybe we'll do a topic episode. Maybe we'd have to watch a bunch of Red Dwarf. Wouldn't you rather just not do anything?

Yeah. I'd rather do nothing. We could do The Bride, exclamation. Oh, I wouldn't mind seeing the Bride, actually. The Bride. Apparently, it's all right. It's all right. You're okay with that?

We could finally do the Jason Statham movie Shelter, where he's Jason Statham. Isn't that on streaming already? Probably. Probably. Anyway, who knows? Who does know? Yeah, we try to keep on top of these things, but a lot of the time it just doesn't work. Because we're bad at this.

Yeah, a lot of the time we don't know what we're doing. A lot of the time we're like, oh, you guess. Oh, you guess, whatever. Maybe we'll do the price. You can do the Kevin James movie Solo Mio, which I can only assume is about, I don't know, man with a dead wife or something. On a wait, he gets left at the altar in Rome,

he decides to go on his honeymoon alone. Solo Mio. Solo Mio, indeed. K disaster. You know what I'm talking about. Dude, I know it. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I forgot. But now it's all been brought back. You saw that in my eyes when you said that, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, folks, thank you so much for listening. We absolutely appreciate it. Thank you for telling your friends about the podcast. Yes.

Even if you've been stealing our bits for years. You could have a tearful, you know, heart to heart with somebody. Confession. You can do a big confession. Say, I've been stealing the beautiful bits from this beautiful podcast for years. Yes, exactly. And they'll be like, I forgive you and I will marry you. We didn't even get that bit.

We do so. We're just humoring you. Yeah, we're just like your funny. I mean, our podcast is just funny voices and funny, saying words funny, really. No, it's really mostly just our voices, though, pretending we're doing, you know, like other people. But it's just us. It is like us.

It is like us. Just us all doing a dumb guy voice. Oh, I'm an idiot. It's just that, you know. Anyway, isn't there reviews or something? Is that what you're going to say? Can you stop doing the dumb guy voice? God.

Yeah. Why'd you do that to me just now? Because it was fun. Stop doing the dog guy voice. Folks, thank you for telling your friends about it because that's about the podcast because that's how we get any listeners. Yes. And thank you for leaving a review, a five-star review on your podcast app of choice.

If you do so, James, we'll read it out right now. It's from Fini and Micker G from the U. USA. Also a great name. It's good be MCJ. It's too many day one. Suspicious amount of these review letters claim to have been listening from the very start.

Can they be believed? I'm not ashamed to say I started episode 163, which is not particularly impressive or noteworthy. The episode was called 163 Best Disney Movies that Mason hates. I didn't even remember that. So I thought it was going to be about Mason hating one and Disney movies, which is not the case at the time. But we may reach that number any day now. I keep up the good work, fellas.

Here's one thing I remember. We got featured on. on the AV club, the Onion's AV club was. Oh, we did. And it was episode 50 something, Batman something. 50 Batman something. And yeah, and it was episode 50. Yeah. And they were like, well, they didn't actually cover 50 Batman something, something's whatever. And I'm like, I'm like, that's wrong. We, you didn't put, you should have put a full stop. At least it was an AI. At least somebody sort of looked at the episode. That's exactly right. Sort of but not really. Exactly. And this is from Chris Valentine. Oh, hello.

It must be nice. Hello, Romeo. Taking everything you've said on board, I still found Captain to make a brave new world, very entertaining despite not quite reaching the top of the flagpole. Must be nice. But not all of us can. Am I right? Come on, mate. Oh, I said they got you. Great show, as always boys.

Why is everyone getting me? I don't know. Don't you think I'm already, I don't think I've been through enough? Don't they people think that? I've been saying that. You've been saying that. You've been encouraging people. No, no.

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That's right. I know what you meant. And that's everything, I think. You got to say you're on your socials and then my socials. Oh, yeah. Wikipedia Brown on Twitter. Nick Maceau on Instagram, changes Mrs. Sunday moves everywhere.

Is that anything? Yep. It's good. It's good. I screen save that and whatever. I've played it through. It's from the full house. It's because you say everywhere.

And I always think of the full house. You always think that. but today you were like, I'm going to ask on it. I should put it in the box. You should put it on one of those buns. People are probably aware of this, but we record these, depending on availability, different times of the day. Sometimes it's early and sometimes it's like...

It's never early. What are you talking about? It's early-ish. Early-ish for you was like you start at four in the afternoon or whatever. That's correct, yes. This is not one of those. No, and depending on what time of the day it is, one of our brains will not be working. Guaranteed.

We've never found that sweet spot and we never found that sweet spot And we never would. I had a coffee before this, which I never do because I was like, shit, I'm flagging. Yeah. As you know. That's right. All right. All right.

Next week, who knows? Grabbed our jammy, guys. We'll see you next week. Next week, who knows? New catchphrase. Who know next week? Who knows? Who knows?